Terça-feira, dia 15 de julho de 2014
Binyamin Netanyahu, on the evening of 15 July, fired Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, allegedly, for stating that Hamas had humilliated Israel.
Israel suffered its first casualty and accepts the Egyptian ceasefire proposal that doesn't include any relief to the Gaza Strip life condition.
Israel suffered its first casualty and accepts the Egyptian ceasefire proposal that doesn't include any relief to the Gaza Strip life condition.
Hamas rejects it, arguing that conditions allowing IDF troops to hold positions within the Gaza Strip would undermine humanitarian efforts and demands what the Palestinians need - an end to the blockade tha strangles Gaza since 2006.
Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Tuesday, July 15. Below, only Palestinian identified victims. Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 15 de julho.
Source/Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center. 2015.
- Abdullah Mohammad al-Arjani, 19, Khan Younis
- Suleiman Abu Louly, 33, Rafah
- Saleh Said Dahleez, 20, Rafah
- Yasser Eid al-Mahmoum, 18, Rafah
- Ismael Fattouh Ismael, 24, Gaza City
- Khalil Sh'aafy, Juhr Ed-Deek - Gaza
- Sobhi Abdul-hamid Mousa, 77, Khan Younis
Israeli 1st death: Dror Hanin, civilian injured by a mortar shell near the Gaza Strip.
Syria TV News
Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,
Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence
12. “Acquiring’ the area around the tunnel”
12. “Acquiring’ the area around the tunnel”
Rank: Major. Unit: Engineering Corps. Area: Gaza strip:
If we’re talking about an attack tunnel that’s meant to reach Israel, the most important thing for the military isn’t to destroy its shaft straight away, but to try to understand where it comes out on the other side. If we’re talking about non-attack tunnels, [but rather] defensive tunnels used by [Hamas] for controlling all kinds of areas, then what happens is that explosives are used to demolish the shaft itself. As far as blowing up the tunnel – if it’s not an attack tunnel where we’re talking about a truly big operation – then there’s no issue of too big a radius. You insert ten mines – 100-150 kilos – and it blows up the shaft. It simply collapses in on itself. It doesn’t have an impact on the surrounding area.
What does impact the surrounding area is the whole issue of the noncombatants’ conception of the military. There’s the matter of ‘acquiring’ the area around the tunnel, figuring out who can wrest control over the tunnel’s opening. This can entail tanks opening up shellfire on buildings two kilometers away from that opening, since there might be a sniper up there who could hit [soldiers]. We’re talking about really shaking up the entire sector. There was a massive amount of fire directed at buildings that weren’t necessarily suspicious, but that could be considered suspicious simply because they commanded a view over the shaft. When we arrived at the area of the tunnel, about 100-200 meters from it, we would look at it, and assess the situation to understand which locations could command the tunnel opening. We identified the opening itself, and two rows of buildings a kilometer away that command it – i.e., [could be used by] a sniper against us. Then tanks would come and fire at those buildings. The air force uses drones, and planes too, but that’s usually a preceding step. You’ll have all kinds of other buildings around the tunnel – so a D9 (armored bulldozer) comes over and flattens the entire area.
13. “I never saw anything like it, not even in Lebanon”
Rank: Sergeant First Class. Unit: Armored Corps. Area: Northern Gaza strip:
We went in [to the Gaza Strip] through the Nahal Oz entrance, we drove a bit north and then continued west. The houses were already in ruins by the time we got there. The D9 (armored bulldozer) used the rubble from the houses to form a rampart compound for us. There were chicken coops that weren’t destroyed by the aerial strikes, and the D9 simply came and peeled them apart. There was concern about tunnels there, so the coops were just crushed. The D9 comes over, lowers its blade on those houses and within an hour and a half everything is wrapped up into itself. Chickens in metal panels, in all those cages they have there, really big and pretty and it smells like roses. It was total destruction in there – the photos online are child’s play compared to what we saw there in reality. It wasn’t so much razing there – it was havoc, mostly: wrecked houses, collapsed balconies, exposed living rooms, destroyed stores. That’s what we saw. I never saw anything like it, not even in Lebanon. There was destruction there, too – but never in my life did I see anything like this.
And were tunnel shafts found in the coops?
No. There were no shafts in the coops.
If we’re talking about an attack tunnel that’s meant to reach Israel, the most important thing for the military isn’t to destroy its shaft straight away, but to try to understand where it comes out on the other side. If we’re talking about non-attack tunnels, [but rather] defensive tunnels used by [Hamas] for controlling all kinds of areas, then what happens is that explosives are used to demolish the shaft itself. As far as blowing up the tunnel – if it’s not an attack tunnel where we’re talking about a truly big operation – then there’s no issue of too big a radius. You insert ten mines – 100-150 kilos – and it blows up the shaft. It simply collapses in on itself. It doesn’t have an impact on the surrounding area.
What does impact the surrounding area is the whole issue of the noncombatants’ conception of the military. There’s the matter of ‘acquiring’ the area around the tunnel, figuring out who can wrest control over the tunnel’s opening. This can entail tanks opening up shellfire on buildings two kilometers away from that opening, since there might be a sniper up there who could hit [soldiers]. We’re talking about really shaking up the entire sector. There was a massive amount of fire directed at buildings that weren’t necessarily suspicious, but that could be considered suspicious simply because they commanded a view over the shaft. When we arrived at the area of the tunnel, about 100-200 meters from it, we would look at it, and assess the situation to understand which locations could command the tunnel opening. We identified the opening itself, and two rows of buildings a kilometer away that command it – i.e., [could be used by] a sniper against us. Then tanks would come and fire at those buildings. The air force uses drones, and planes too, but that’s usually a preceding step. You’ll have all kinds of other buildings around the tunnel – so a D9 (armored bulldozer) comes over and flattens the entire area.
13. “I never saw anything like it, not even in Lebanon”
Rank: Sergeant First Class. Unit: Armored Corps. Area: Northern Gaza strip:
We went in [to the Gaza Strip] through the Nahal Oz entrance, we drove a bit north and then continued west. The houses were already in ruins by the time we got there. The D9 (armored bulldozer) used the rubble from the houses to form a rampart compound for us. There were chicken coops that weren’t destroyed by the aerial strikes, and the D9 simply came and peeled them apart. There was concern about tunnels there, so the coops were just crushed. The D9 comes over, lowers its blade on those houses and within an hour and a half everything is wrapped up into itself. Chickens in metal panels, in all those cages they have there, really big and pretty and it smells like roses. It was total destruction in there – the photos online are child’s play compared to what we saw there in reality. It wasn’t so much razing there – it was havoc, mostly: wrecked houses, collapsed balconies, exposed living rooms, destroyed stores. That’s what we saw. I never saw anything like it, not even in Lebanon. There was destruction there, too – but never in my life did I see anything like this.
And were tunnel shafts found in the coops?
No. There were no shafts in the coops.
Bias Mainstream Media?
Gaza Free running & Parkour
Gaza Free running & Parkour
before / antes de Protective Edge
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